Deputy Al-Qaeda Leader Killed In US Airstrike

Local media said Fatah al-Sham, the former Al-Nusra front, confirmed the identity of Al-Masri on Monday (27 February) after the US Defense Department said they had led an attack in northwest Syria but without giving further details on the identity of the intended target. Deputy to present leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Masri has always been wanted by the US for his role in the 1998 bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

Al-Nusra renamed itself Jabhat Fateh al-Sham and insisted it was no longer linked to an external entity, but the U.S. kept the group on its list of foreign terrorist organisations and continued to target it in air strikes.

Reports coming in from Syria confirms the death of the 59-year-old Egyptian, including a post from Charles Lister of the Middle East Institute. It should be noted, however, that since bin Laden's death many high-profile al-Qaeda figures have been claimed to be the organization's "number two" man behind Zawahiri, and the fact that the same thing is happening this time doesn't necessarily mean it is the case.

The grassroots volunteer organization Syrian Observatory for Human rights also reported his death, but there has been no official word released by al-Qaeda.

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